Full electronic search strings for search strategy 2: studies that focused on gender differences in alcohol or cannabis use and related harms but did not explicitly conduct age-period-cohort analyses
| Database | Search group | Search terms |
|---|---|---|
| EMBASE | Alcohol | SH: exp alcohol consumption/ OR exp alcoholism/ OR exp alcohol abuse/ OR exp drinking behavior/ OR exp alcohol intoxication/ |
| Cannabis* | SH: exp cannabis/ OR exp substance abuse/ OR exp drug abuse/ OR exp drug dependence/OR marijuana.mp (marijuana used as a keyword because not mapped to separate MeSH) | |
| PsychINFO | Alcohol | SH: exp Alcohol Drinking Patterns/ |
| Cannabis* | SH: exp cannabis/ OR exp marijuana usage/ OR exp Drug abuse/ | |
| MEDLINE | Alcohol | SH: exp alcohol drinking/ OR exp alcohol-related disorders/ |
| Cannabis* | SH: exp cannabis/ OR exp marijuana abuse/ OR exp substance-related disorders/ | |
| EMBASE, PsychINFO, MEDLINE | Gender | (((male AND female) OR (men AND women) OR sex OR gender) AND convergence).mp OR ‘gender gap’.mp |
Search groups were combined as follows: [Alcohol OR Cannabis] AND [Gender].
*Cannabis indicators were analysed separately and are reported elsewhere (Chapman et al, under review).